Conference thebay::joyoflex

Well, I don't know about "in good taste", but for an interesting parody on
"Rudolf the Red-nosed reindeer", try something like this:

	$ vnotes benson::sexetera
	Notes> 29.69

/Eric

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Subject: Comic Strip Song
Posted: 3 Dec 85 14:41:48 GMT
Organization: 
 
 
 
	Remember that great comic strip Pogo?  The characters in it used
to sing a great Christmas carol, and I've been wracking my brains trying to
remember the words.  It was sung to the tune of "Deck the Halls", and the
first line went, "Deck the halls with Boston Charlie...".
 
	Is there any one out there that remembers the entire song?
 
						Jim Drennan
						New York Blood Center
 
 
"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
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Subject: Re: Comic Strip Song (Boston Charlie)
Posted: 4 Dec 85 15:32:41 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA
Keywords: Boston Charlie
Summary: Many versions of "Boston Charlie" exist
 
There are many versions of the Boston Charlie, and in fact Walt Kelly produced
an entire book involving discussions, disagreements, etc. among Pogo and his
friends about the correct words.  Here is my best recollection of "The Olde
Original Charlie" from that book:
 
    Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
    Walla Walla, Wash., and Kalamazoo.
    Nora's freezing on the trolley,
    Swaller dollar cauliflower aligaroo.
    Don't we know archaic barrel,
    Lullaby, lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
    Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
    Boola Boola, Pensacoola, Hullabaloo. 
 
I have a tendency to confuse the lines of this with the lines of Gaylord's
version, swapping lines between the two versions.  Gaylord, being a hound,
sings it something like this:
 
    Bark us all bow-wows of folly
    ............................        ( I don't remember these 3 lines )
    ............................        (                                )
    ............................        (                                )
    Donkey bonny brays a carol
    Antelope, cantaloupe, 'lope with you.
    Cholly's collie barks at barrow,
    Harum scarum five-alarum bungaloo.
 
The "Lullaby" and "Antelope" lines are the ones I'm most likely to have swapped
here.
-- 
Morris M. Keesan
keesan@bbn-unix.ARPA
{decvax,ihnp4,etc.}!bbncca!keesan

From the college days:

Deck the halls with balls of pledges
fa la la la la, la la la la.
Sharpen up the razor's edges
fa la la la la, la la la la.
Down we now with their apparrel
fa la la, la la la, la la la.
'Tis the  season to be sterile
fa la la la la, la la la la.

And from Mad Magazine, c. 1960

Wreck the walls and fences, golly,
Fa la la la la, la la la la.
...
...
...
...
Trip that old man with a wire
Fa la la la la, la la la la.

Dave C.
i forgot most of it.

       An old Alan Sherman song started out:
           
           God bless ye Jerry Mendelson
           Let nothing you dismay,
           Dis May you had a rotten month
           So what is there to say?
           Next May you'll have a better month...
           
           

From:	RHEA::DECWRL::"mirror!rs%mit-eddie@MIT-CCC" 13-DEC-1985 17:40
To:	info-cobol%ccc@mit-eddie
Subj:	Christmas Cheer

Someone posted this in the net.comics recently (on Usenet).
Everything after this line is from that posting.

It seems every year, somebody asks for the lyrics to Pogo's "Deck Us All
With Boston Charlie".  Here, from the Summer 1982 issue of "Pogo: The
Okefenokee Star", are the six verses of that song.  Enjoy. 

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley'garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel,
Lullaby lilla boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly wolly cracker n' too-da-loo!
Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloup, 'lope with you!

Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!
Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarum bung-a-loo!

Duck us all in bowls of barley,
Hinky dinky dink an' polly voo!
Chilly Filly's name is Chollie,
Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Double-bubble, toyland trouble!  Woof, Woof, Woof!
Tizzy seas on melon collie!
Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble!  Goof, Goof, Goof!
-- 
Joe Presley (whuxl!presley)
/* End of text from mirror:net.comics */

I remember the short form dialogue from Pogo:

"Deck the Halls with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla Wash., and Kalamazoo.
When snu  is falling, we'll be jolly, ..."

"Snu?  What's snu"

"I dunno.  What's snu with you?"
 
    fred

    Can anyone complete the carol
    
    "When shepherds wash their socks by night
     All seated on the ground,
     A bar of Sunlight soap came down
    
     ...."
    
    I have forgotten it. I think its from the adventures of 
    Nigel Molesworth, a British public skool (sic) boy made
    famous by the drawings of Ronald Searle.
     
    - Giles

    Re: .8
    
    And fell in their ground round."
    
    -bs

    I'm surprised that no one brought up P.D.Q. Bach's carols: "Good
    King Kong Looked Out", "O Little Town of Hackensack", and "Throw
    The Yule Log On Uncle John".
    
    "O Little Town of Hackensack,
    How still we see thee lie.
    The man was here but now he's gone,
    On his way to Tenafly..."

    As soon as I dig out the music, I'll transcribe the rest.  I was
    in a choir that did these one night at a Christmas Eve concert;
    the little old laides in the audience had puzzled expressions until
    they realized what was going on; then they all had heart attacks.
    There was a movement the next day to have the choir disbanded and
    the director fired (honest!).

Of course, if you're desperate, you can sing Robert Frost's
Poem "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" to O Tannenbaum.

For an encore (if the audience lets you get through with it),
try the poem set to Hernando's Hideaway.

Martin.

    
    Also from MAD magazine, C 1970 ...
    
    Fill the bars with Christmas drinking
    fa la la la la, la la la la
    See the people getting stinking
    fa ...
    'Till their brains are half corroded
    fa ...
    Then they try to drive home loaded
    fa ....
    
    See the busy intersection
    fa ...
    Here come cars from each direction
    fa ...
    See the pile up when they're meeting
    fa ...
    What a novel Christmas greeting
    fa la la la la, la la la la
    

    Some old classics are on Stan Frieburg's Green Christmas album.
    Haven't heard it for awhile, but some first lines go:
    
    "Deck the halls with Advertising!"
    
    "Dashing through the snow in a 20 foot coupe!"
    
    I beleive its an old album, from the 60's (50's?)...

    Re: .8
    
    I think the 2nd and 4th lines of the Molesworth version are
    
    ...All seated round the tub
    ...And they began to scrub

    Re .15:
    
    And I heard the story that the old _New York Herald Tribune_ insisted
    that the word "Herald" be italicized in text every time.
    
    Thus it came to pass that when a report of a Christmas program
    was made, it was duly printed that one of the songs to be sung
    was:  "Hark, the _Herald_ Angels Sing."
    
    The policy afterwards was modified.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.                                       

    I wrote this one a year or two ago myself (and aptly enough it's
    still true):
    
    Hark the Herald, newsboys sing
    Reagan's doing his own thing
    Mideast crisis won't abate
    Won't run out of folks to hate
    Crime is up the city's filthy
    Poor get starved and rich get wealthy
    One can only stop and stare
    And wonder why the hell they're there
    Hark the Herald Boston cries
    (I read the Globe, there's fewer lies)
    
    
    -Jody
     

    Another variant on While Shepherds....
    
    While shepherds washed their socks by night
    All watching (insert commercial TV network here e.g. N.B.C.)
    The angel of the Lord came down
    And turned to (insert alternate network, preferably more educational)

    G'day,
    
    A not so charitable version of God rest.. starts
    
    God rest you, Gerry mentalmen.... an allusion to Herr H, I suspect
    
    While shepherds watched their soup by night,
    All seated round the pot ,
    A girt great lump of soot fell down,
    And spoilt the blooming lot.
    
    This one dates me!
    
    We three Kings of Orient are,
    Flogging soap at thruppence a bar,
    Choc'late sevenpence, Mars bars elevenpence,
    Driving round in a mini car...
                                    
    
    Derek
    
    
     

    Tom Lehrer had a song which parodied portions of several Christmas
    carols.  The first line was something like:
    
    "Hark the Herald Tribune sells..."
    
    Perhaps someone can recall the rest, otherwise I shall have to
    transcribe it from my old phonograph record.

    Re .20 (Tom Lehrer):
    
    Since now is the time of year that the hype for Christmas songs
    begins, here it is, mostly.  I may have mixed up some of the
    verses, but that's memory for you.
    
    	Christmas time is hear by golly
    	Disapproval would be folly
    	Deck the halls with hunks of holly
    	Fill the cup and don't say when
       
    	Kill those turkeys ducks and chickens
    	Pour the punch, drag out the Dickens
    	Even though the prospect sickens
    	Brother here we go again
        
    	On Christmas Day you can't be sore
    	Your fellow man you must adore
    	You can hate him all the more
    	The other three hundred and sixty four
        
    	Relations sparing no expense'll
    	Send some useless old utensil
    	Or a matching pen and pencil
    	Just the thing I need, how nice
        
    	(to the tune: Hark the Herald Angel sings)
    	Hark the Herald Tribune sings
    	Advertising wond'rous things
    
    	(to the tune: God rest ye merry gentlemen)
    	God rest ye merry merchants
    	May you make the Yuletide pay
    
    	(to the tune: ??)
    	Angels we have heard on high
    	Tell us to go out and buy!
    
    	(to original tune)
    	Hear those raucous sleighbells jingle
    	Hail our dear old friend Kriss Kringle
    	Riding his reindeer across the sky
    	Don't stand underneath when they fly by!

    > I may have mixed up some of the verses, but that's memory for you.
    
    Actually, you got them all correct and in order. One nit, one missing
    verse, and one answer, though:
    
    >	On Christmas Day you can't be sore
    >	Your fellow man you must adore
    >	You can hate him all the more
    
    The third line is "There's time to rob him all the more".
    
    >	Relations sparing no expense'll
    >	Send some useless old utensil
    >	Or a matching pen and pencil
    >	Just the thing I need, how nice
    
    (missing verse)
    
    	It doesn't matter how sincere it
    	Is, or how heartfelt the spirit.
    	Sentiment will not endear it.
    	What's important is...the price!
       
    >	(to the tune: ??)
    >	Angels we have heard on high
    >	Tell us to go out and buy!
    
    Would you believe "Angels We Have Heard on High"? (Or its ancestral
    version, "Angels in Their Realm of Glory".)
    

    Not exactly a carol, but:  (to be sung to one of _Messiah_'s SATBs)

    For unto us a VAX is born
    Unto us a VAX is given
    And its processors are faster than Apollo's
    And its name shall be called
    MicroVAX, ---, the mighty baud, with flabbergasting power,
    A masterpiece.

    alternately:

    For unto us an age has dawned
    Unto us a chance is given
    For our processors are faster than Apollo's
    And this age shall be called
    Digital Networking.  Big Blue guffawed, but now with profits falling
    they get no peace.

(from a two-year-old DECAROLERS Note)

re: .-1
>   Would you believe "Angels We Have Heard on High"? (Or its ancestral
>   version, "Angels in Their Realm of Glory".)

    Correct on the first title, but the "Angels in the Realms of Glory" that
    I know is a different tune (with a nice bass line).

    I concur with -.1, the two hymns are different.  However, I remember
    the second as being "Angels From the Realms of Glory".
                                ^^^^
    
    Spd

    re:.24
    
    The performance I have on disc (Maddy Prior, from Steeleye Span,
    doing various sorts of traditional -- read: early, not popular --
    carols) gives it as "in" rather than "from". Chalk it down to
    "folk process".
    
    As for it being a different tune, well, yes, it's not strictly the
    same tune, but Prior's version (done, bizarrely enough, somewhat
    in the idiom of a Cajun fiddle tune) has much the same melody and
    cadence as "Angels We Have Heard on High", leading me to suspect
    (without doing the research to prove it one way or 'tother) that
    "AWHHoH" is a later variation of "AiTRoG".
    
    --- jerry

    
    
    Cookie Quince at last lucked out
    Upon his feets uneven.

re: .23

>>    Not exactly a carol, but:  (to be sung to one of _Messiah_'s SATBs)

    "For Unto Us a Child is Born", to be exact.
       
    The DECarolers have several parodies; the most recent addition
    (courtesy of the Hudson (MA) group):
    
    [sung to the tune of _Deck the Hall_]
    
    DEC - it would be superficial,
    fa la la la la la la la la,
    If we made our song commercial,
    fa la la la la la la la la,
    And we have our moral standards,
    fa la la la la la la la la,
    Though we must say with all candor,
    "Digital Equipment has it now."
    
    Bruce (Maynard DECaroler)